Giulio Martinat

Giulio Martinat (24 February 1891-26 January 1943) was a General of Italy during World War II. An Alpini commander, he was killed during the Battle of Stalingrad.

Biography
Giulio Martinat was born on 24 February 1891 to a family of Waldensian Italians in Perrero, Piedmont, Italy, and he joined the Royal Italian Army. He served in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911 and then World War I, becoming a Captain in 1916. From 1924 to 1927 he served at the Italian military mission to Ecuador before fighting in the 1935 Second Italo-Abyssinian War and the 1939 Italian conquest of Albania. In 1942, Martinat was promoted to Brigadier-General and sent to lead an army of Alpini in the Italian 8th Army in World War II, and his unit fought bravely at the Battle of Stalingrad. In January 1943, he led the breakout at the Battle of Nikolayevka, but he was killed in action; his sacrifice let his comrades escape.